Jean Grondin
Jean Grondin ( 1955 -) is a philosopher and a Canadian professor. He is a specialist in the thought of Immanuel Kant , in Hans-Georg Gadamer and Martin Heidegger. His research focuses on hermeneutics , the phenomenology , classical German philosophy and the history of metaphysics.
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Education and career
After conducting studies in philosophy of first and second cyle at the University of Montreal , he wrote a thesis on the concept of truth in hermeneutics at the University of Tbingen (1982), where he also studied classical philology and theology. He taught at Laval University in Quebec from 1982 to 1990 and the University of Ottawa in 1990-1991, visiting professor at Lausanne , Nice , Minsk , Naples , San Salvador and Port-au-Prince.
Jean Grondin teaches at the University of Montreal since 1991. In addition to his books, translated into over a dozen languages, it is also the author of several articles in various philosophical journals. His two books on Kant today in authoritative studies Kant and its contributions to the approach of the "hermeneutic turn" in phenomenology Grondin enroll in a philosophical tradition that goes back to Platonic philosophy, to Augustine , through Kant and Husserl to hermeneutics Heideggerian of " facticity. "
Influences, work
The influence of Gadamer and his master work Warheit und Methode ( Truth and Method ) (1960) (which is one of the translators of the French edition) has been decisive on the work of Grondin. He is also the first (and bright) intellectual biography of his teacher (Hans-Georg Gadamer. Eine Biographie). This book was eagerly awaited in Germany because, firstly, the well-known compromise of Heidegger (Gadamer's teacher and friend) with Nazism and the other, as regards the attitude of "ascetic" of Gadamer during the Second World War.
This biography, especially welcomed by Jrgen Habermas , has already been an English translation and provides a sum for anyone interested in the history of philosophical ideas in Germany in the twentieth century. It was also translated into Spanish, Italian and English (Yale University Press, 2003).
Brief presentation of his thinking
The best-known work of Jean Grondin is the universality of hermeneutics (1993), which was translated into 9 languages. Grondin defends a conception of hermeneutics based on the universality of the interior word: behind every speech, comprehension is an inner sense that exceeds the terms of the external language.
This design has been depth of meaning in his essay more personal, Meaning of Life (2003), where the author argues that the meaning of life need not be imposed from outside, but that it should be immanent. This meaning is that of a life that aspires to a higher good. The meaning of life lies thus in the self-transcendence. Grondin then the critical concepts " constructivist "meaning that make sense and reality itself a construct of the mind or language.
From there, Jean Grondin has developed in his What do I know? On Hermeneutics, published in 2006, a conception of hermeneutics based on the idea that the meaning we seek to understand "is always a sense of things themselves, what they mean, a meaning that is clearly beyond our poor performances and limited horizon, but, God thank you, always stretch our language "(p. 123). Grondin is opposed by most versions of postmodern hermeneutics.
Jean Grondin also worked on German idealism, Dilthey , hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur , the theory of interpretation of the Italian Emilio Betti , the deconstruction of Jacques Derrida , and new phenomenology such as Jean-Luc Marion. Grondin also translated several books of Gadamer: Hermeneutics Philosophy (PUF, 1996), Paths of Heidegger (Vrin, 2002). Sketches hermeneutic (Vrin, 2004), Hermeneutics in retrospect (Vrin, 2005).
Works published
- 1982 : Hermeneutische Wahrheit? Zum Wahrheitsbegriff Hans-Georg Gadamers (2nd ed. 1994)
- 1987 : The Turning Point in the thought of Martin Heidegger
- 1989 : Kant and the problem of philosophy: the a priori
- 1991 : Immanuel Kant. Before / After
- 1991 : Einfhrung in die philosophische Hermeneutik
- 1993 : The Universality of Hermeneutics
- 1993 : The Horizon hermeneutics of contemporary thought
- 1994 : Der Sinn fr Hermeneutik
- 1994 : Kant zur Einfhrung
- 1999 : Hans-Georg Gadamer. Eine Biographie (trad. English 2003, Hans-Georg Gadamer. A Biography)
- 1999 : Introduction to Hans-Georg Gadamer
- 2001 : Von Heidegger zu Gadamer
- 2003 : On the meaning of life. Essay (trans. German 2006, Spanish 2004, Netherlands 2005)
- 2003 : The Turning hermeneutic phenomenology
- 2004 : Introduction to metaphysics
- 2006 : The Hermeneutics
- 2009 : The Philosophy of Religion
- 2011 : Hans-Georg Gadamer
Honors
- Scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 1994 - Killam Fellowship
- Member of the Academy of Arts and Humanities of the Royal Society of Canada
- Doctorate honoris causa from the University of Santo Tomas Aquino de Tucumn (Argentina), 2008.
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